University. And charles ogletree. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. Good morning. Perhaps it was a bit of hyperbole, but one writer said this is a week historians will write books about. A week when an africanamerican president sang Amazing Grace as the country buried the confederate battle flag. The left right ideological struggle strung in sharply in favor of progressives. As americans came to look at issues in rapid order. The Confederate Flag was seen by most as eye reminder of hate, not heritage. Health care reform a right, not a privilege. Samesex marriage became a law of the land. It was a week that cemented president obamas legacy as well. Here he is celebrating the Supreme Court Health Care Decision with his chief of staff, denis mcdonough. On friday night, the white house was bathed in rainbow colors in honor of the marriage ruling capping the social transformation since the 1960s. There is a right to marriage equality. We have it. There is a right to marriage equality.
Jefferson is the founder of uva. He worked for many years to develop a system of education in virginia. Uva was his last great project, which he did it after he left the white house. He designed the buildings and the curriculum. He served as the first chair of the board of visitors. He was intimately involved as you will see in a lot of details about building the buildings. Pretty much everything you can think of. His vision is called an academic village. If you look at his plans for the university, at the time a lot of universities consisted of one very big building where classes were held, and there were dormitory rooms. Jeffersons idea was to make a village out of it, with students living near the professors, and classes being given in the professors homes. There was constant interaction of students and faculty. Plus, it is in charlottesville the 1820s. It was a very small town, a village really. If you think about these amazing buildings that went up in the early 1820s in the middl
Always found it to be such an intellectually welcoming community here, a place where scholarship anp an friendship ce together in such a remarkable way. Im very, very grateful to all of my friends here, the members of this exceedingly smart staff and this year to my fellow fellows who are also exceedingly smart. [laughter] gregory nobles and then there is mass audubon. I got to western western, i got the opportunity to go to the mass operative audubon, and i was struck by the energy and commitment of the people who are working with were working for mass audubon. I got a sense and a taste of their very wise it and effective advocacy, and not just for birds but also for the environment and also really for all of us. And also, their stewardship of the land, some 60 natural sites in massachusetts, 58 for me, but i am going. Honored to be here, happy to be here, happy to talk about my man audubon. When i think about john james audubon, when i write about him, i see him as a man of so many i
After the discussion, so please join down there. And so excited to talk about this book, and thank you for being with us. Mr. Huebner thank you. What was your impetus behind writing this book . Mr. Huebner it took me a long time to write. It is a book that i hope tells a big story. Im interested in what changed from the antebellum period to reconstruction. The only way to evaluate that is trying to cover it all. The book really explores american constitutionalism from the antebellum era through reconstruction. Then of tell the story andherners and southerners those who have been left out of the constitutional narrative. So i try to explore how all of perspectives on Constitutional Values play themselves out. You begin the book with a terrific quotes from frederick douglas, to my colleagues remind me it would be the observed birthday of frederick douglass. I know of no country where the conditions are affecting great change in the settled order of things but the development of bread ide